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Closing Arguments Made in City’s ‘Poisoned’ Groundwater Trial

May 16, 2018July 5, 2018 NATHAN SOLIS
Agriculture, fertilizer, mining, pollution, water

Attorneys made their closing arguments Wednesday in a case where the city of Pomona claims that a Chilean chemical company “poisoned” its groundwater over the course of decades, costing millions in cleanup costs.

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Environment Health Regional 

Study Points to Soil Fertilizer as the Likely Culprit of Central Valley Smog

February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 NICK CAHILL
California, Central Valley, farming, fertilizer, Smog

California’s fertile Central Valley farm soil – and not the tractors and trucks working it – may hold the key ingredient of the state’s notoriously smoggy air, according to a University of California, Davis report.

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Appeals 

9th Circuit Revives SoCal City’s Water-Contamination Suit

August 7, 2017June 15, 2018 MATT REYNOLDS
California, fertilizer, Ninth Circuit, pollution, product liability, San Diego, water

The Ninth Circuit has ordered a new trial against a Chilean industrial chemical company that the Southern California city of Pomona says contaminated the its water system with fertilizer chemicals.

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Environment 

Agriculture-Caused ‘Dead Zone’ Threatening Gulf of Mexico

July 31, 2017October 2, 2017 JON PARTON
Agriculture, fertilizer, Gulf of Mexico, rivers

Ocean life and our supply of clean drinking water will decrease unless more is done to limit farmland runoff of nitrogen-based fertilizer and livestock waste, according to a study published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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